Failing And Surviving

Failure is where life actually happens, right?

Failure shapes your character and moulds you, right?

Failure helps you learn, right?

Think about it?

How much do you learn when everything is going swimmingly?

If you're like most people, when you're successful and everything is ticking along, you hardly spend any time looking for why it's working! 

We human beings have a ridiculously mental relationship to failure and actors/singers/producers/creative types have an even mentaler(!) relationship to it. 

But here's the thing - the people who are most successful in the world are also the ones who have had failure in their lives.

Why?

Because they don't let failure stop them.  They choose to use failure as a learning tool.

So the next time you fail, have a beer, celebrate and look inside the failure and see how you can turn it into a success.  

The only time I even consider myself having failed is when I didn't try.  

I can't even tell you how much I'm failing and, it's big time, yet still I'm smiling and thinking of what to do with it and how to use it as a positive experience!  Am I crying every day?  Nope! Am I trying to find a way out of it?  Yep!   I'm doing something positive with it! 

Whether you succeed or fail is not the question we should be asking!  It should be - did you do your best?  Did you try?

Right then!  Your best is all you can be.

Your best is all anyone can ask of you.   

Your best is all you can give.  

As long as you have done your best, be happy.  

If you haven't done your best, kick yourself up the arse and ask, why?    

Then fix it for next time :-)

So, don't be afraid to fail. It could very well be the best thing to ever happen to you.   We're all human after all.  And if you aren't failing at something, then you're not out there trying!


Your best is the best you can be.   No one can ask for more.  Fact.

Some interesting facts about failure:

• Abraham Lincoln ran for office upwards of 15 times and was defeated every single time until he ran for President in 1861.   

• Thomas Edison's teachers said he was too stupid to learn anything. 

• Albert Einstein didn't speak until he was 4 years old and didn't read until he was 7. He was also expelled form Zurich Polytechnic School. 

• Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor for lack of ideas. He was also turned down by 70 banks to build  Disneyland because they thought the idea would never work. 

• Sylvester Stallone was turned down by over 200 agents when he wrote Rocky and wanted to star in it. Someone offered to produce it if he DIDN'T star in it. We all know the ending of that failure! 

• The guy who made the glue on the back of Post IT notes was actually trying to make a glue that would NEVER COME OFF?!